Picturesque Burlington - a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain (1894) (14770162904)

Identifier: picturesqueburli00auld (find matches)
Title: Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Auld, Joseph, 1848-1921
Subjects: Burlington (Vt.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Burlington, Vt. : Free Press Association
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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nd invalids are not taken. Children are received from allparts of the State. ?)Ut to bs admissible, they must have a physi-cians written certificate that they are sound and healthy. It isnot the plan to take children that are feeble, as no homes can befound for such and the usefulness of the institution would thus becurtailed. Many of the children taken into the Home are caredfor temporarily and are finally returned to their parents. Othersare surrendered to the Home legally. The managers exercisegreat care in selecting homes for these waifs. When they permitone to be indentured they are particular to keep an oversight ofthe child till he becomes of legal age. xV good many of the child-ren are legally adopted by kindly people and thus secure pleasanthomes. The Home does its noble work at a cost of about Sicoooa year. The Society started without money and worked its wayalong by temporary subscriptions and by the efforts of thewomen of Burlington, till it now has an assured income large
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li£^^^-^ pOBtK v.^_rtoy- ^^ •yis. PICTURESQUE BURLINGTON. 8^ enough to permit the above expenditure. The permanent fundnow amounts to about $80,000, exclusive of the Howard OperaHouse. This building, which was presented to the society byMr. John P. Howard, produces an income of nearly $6,000. Thestory of this noble charity is a story of many years of hard andcheerful labor, without material reward, in the interests ofhumanit)-. The Howard Relief Society was chartered by the VermontLegi.slature in 18S4. It is the incorporated successor of an asso-ciation of ladies that previously had carried on its work. Itwould take too much space to fully tell all the objects of the soci-ety and what it has accomplished. In brief its aim is to reducesuffering and destitution, to aid poor people to keep their childrenin the public schools and to furnish . manual instruction to thechildren of the thriftless. It has made begging in Burlington .sounnecessary that it is not known on the streets. The so